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Talk It Down

ARTISTS

Michael ABBOT, Derek Bob MORRIS, Just MANDY, Graham HALL, Cam MACDIARMID, Guru SIMON, Mary D. STORY & MISIC, Monica GILFEDDER, Dusan BOJIC, May FLANNERY, GEEIJO

 

DESCRIPTION

“In Brisbane, Talk It Down, at the Story Bridge Hotel at Kangaroo Point had weekly readings that drew large mixed crowds of poetry lovers and public bar drinkers alike. Readings had a renewed boom in the mid-1980s and regular readings have since been held in all capital cities and many towns in Australia.”

 

DATE

1988

 

RELATIONSHIPS

ARI

 

QUOTES

 

CONTEXTUAL NOTES

Talk It Down, 1988, Story Bridge Hotel

 

MEDIA

Printed Postcard

 

RELEVANT ATTRIBUTION

Kindly reproduced with full permission of Brad PIMM

 

PROVENANCE

Brad PIMM archives collection

 

PERMALINK

https://remix.org.au/portfolio_page/spokenword-talkitdown-flyer-junejuly/

 

WEB LINKS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_performance_poetry

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